Friends~I have been working with Spelling City to review some of their premium games and I spent some time this morning playing lots of fun spelling and vocabulary practice games. Check out a few of my favorites below!

My favorite of the day is Word-O-Rama. I set this game up with our vocabulary words from our Reading Street story this week and my students were able to match the word to the definition or sentence given. This will be perfect practice for next week because we will be taking our end of the year SRI tests. During the SRI tests students are always asked the meaning of several vocabulary words and they have to find the meaning from the text.

Another favorite that I am going to add to my Exploration Centers is Spelling City's Cursive Handwriting sheets. You can generate your own cursive sheets from your word lists. It is super easy!

Mine will look like this! I plan on coping several copies for students to explore. I don't teach cursive but they will be exposed to it in 3rd so it is a fun way for them to get their feet wet.

I am finding so many new ways to use Spelling City in my classroom. I hope you will head over and check it out! I am getting my practice lists ready for my kiddos to use this summer!

Thursday, April 26, 2012

When I found out it was "Pay it Forward" Day, I decided to pay my readers forward by sharing lots of great sites and activities that are going on in "Teacher Blog" land! Plus, I threw in a little "temporary freebie"! Hop on over to Elementary Matters for lots of great stuff!Sally

We've recently come back from holidays and I was CAH-RAZY enough to go in and rearrange my whole room. Sigh. But I love the changes I made and you can check out some new pics of my classroom and read about how I structure my guided math groups in recent posts. I use the TIME acronym:

T: Teacher's Choice (sometimes I work with individuals for assessments rather than the groups, hence the name - it allows me more choice as to what I do with the group).

I: Independent Work (includes computer programs, worksheets, activities with manipulatives etc to work on the current concept).

My LETRS training (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) from a couple of weeks ago keeps spinning in my head. As I review my notes, I find more and more things I want to share with other teachers. I wrote several more interesting points on Elementary Matters. Come on over and see what I've shared!Sally

Saturday, April 21, 2012

I enjoyed a fabulous LETRS training a couple of weeks ago, and I'm only starting to process everything I learned! (LETRS stands for Learning Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling.) I wrote about some of what I learned today. Come on over to Elementary Matters to find these random tidbits of information! Sally

Friday, April 20, 2012

It's my birthday and I want to celebrate by giving you 50% off all items priced $3 and over in my stores. I'm going to tidy up a bit and get ready to go out and then the sale will be over! Get in quick while you can!

You
are welcome to post this on FB/Twitter (I don't do these), blog about it and Pin It! I love nothing more than grabbing a bargain and I'm sure your
followers will as well.